Crocodiles Quote by John Keats

“What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hour after hour of no words. Would you speak…

— Ali Smith

Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering. And if…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy…

— William Shakespeare

Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then…

— David Abram

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret…

— Dante Alighieri

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

— Mandy Patinkin

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On…

— John Milton

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words…

— Dante Alighieri

Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In…

— Isak Dinesen

“Syllables and letters may not be tangible, but they can still destroy your entire life faster than a bullet from a gun. One word.…

— Aly Martinez